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Old 12-07-2012, 04:20 PM   #236 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic
I too can remember when the air quality here was many times worse than it is now...
Around 1970 I was driving East on the freeway around dusk. Since I was in a 1957 Beetle, I had a round driver's door mirror and I could see the setting sun perfectly centered in the round mirror. In the surrounding twilight, I had a moment and went "Awww...." until I realized the sun wasn't setting behind the hills; it was setting into the air pollution.

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Cooperation and compromise don't mix well with arrogance and an inflated sense of self worth, a problem which seems to plague a small minority of members here.
Words I've learned recently include:
Agorism
Social Anarchism

jamesqf --I thought I was going to have to go looking for that link. Thanks for posting it.

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